Karin Dannecker

Karin Dannecker (born September 27, 1955 in Dotternhausen / Baden-Wuerttemberg ) is a German art therapist (MA), professor and head of the further education course in art therapy at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , which is offered in cooperation with the Park-Klinik Weißensee . She is also a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist .

biography

Karin Dannecker studied special and curative education as well as art education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated in 1982 with the 2nd state examination. From 1983 to 1985 she studied art therapy in New York at New York University and graduated with a Master of Arts in Art Therapy.

1992 doctorate it at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt / Main) for Dr. phil. In 2005 he completed his habilitation at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) with the topic "The Conditions of the Psychological and Aesthetic Transformations in Art Therapy". She received the Venia Legendi in art therapy.

From 1985 to 1986 she gave seminars on art therapy at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne , Department of Curative Education. From 1986 on, she taught for twelve years at the Berlin University of the Arts (now the University of the Arts) and conceived a supplementary course in art therapy, which began in 2000 in Art Therapy Berlin, College for Further Education and Research, in collaboration with Goldsmiths College London and Park -Klinik Weißensee was realized. Since 2005 this course has been a postgraduate course at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. This was the first course in art therapy that was established in Germany with a Master of Arts degree.

Karin Dannecker has been a professor and head of the art therapy continuing education course at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin since 2005. Her teaching includes aesthetics and symbolization, diagnostics, conducting conversations, ethics in art therapy, psychological portraits of artists, and supervision . Since 1987, parallel to her work at the university, she has been working continuously as an art therapist in the psychiatric and psychosomatic departments of the Schlosspark-Klinik and Park-Klinik Sophie Charlotte in Berlin. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of art therapy. She is involved in several studies that are empirically quantitative as well as qualitative. Theoretical research papers center around image questions and aesthetics , psychodynamic aspects of art therapy, psychoanalysis and art. She is also involved in national and international projects to develop and establish the professional field.

Publications

• Why art. About the need to create art (Ed. With Uwe Herrmann), Berlin, Medical Scientific Publishing Company MWV (2016)
• Art Outsider Art (Ed. With Wolfram Voigtländer), Weißensee School of Art, Berlin (2012)
• Psyche and aesthetics. The Transformations of Art Therapy, Medical-Scientific Publishing Company Berlin (MWV) (2006, 3rd expanded edition 2014)
• International Perspectives in Art Therapy (Ed.), Graz, Nausner & Nausner (2003)
• Art, symbol and soul - theses on art therapy, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York (1994), 4th edition (2015)

Articles, book chapters (selection)

• The aesthetic moment: intersubjectivity and change processes in art therapy. In: Flora von Spreti, Philipp Martius, Florian Steger (eds.). Art Therapy. Artistic action - effect - craft. Stuttgart: Schattauer 2017
• The aesthetic dimension of art therapy. In: G. Gödde, W. Pohlmann, J. Zirfas (eds.), Aesthetics of Treatment. Relationship, design and living art in the psychotherapeutic process; Psychosozial Verlag, May 2015 pp. 77–94
• A Pilot RCT of Psychodynamic Group Art Therapy for Patients in Acute Psychotic Episodes: Feasibility, Impact on Symptoms and Mentalizing Capacity. With co-author Christiane Montag et al .; in: PLOSONE (PDF) from October 13, 2014
• Comments on feeling and form. Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy of Art and Culture; in: The art of living in the 20th century. Voices of philosophers, artists and therapists: G. Gödde, J. Zirfas (Ed.) Paderborn, Fink Verlag, 2014 pp. 41–54
• The truths of kitsch; in: Journal for Psychology & Social Criticism 37 (2) 2013, pp. 9–26
• Artifacts - Research in Art Therapy; in: Wulf Rössler, Birgit Matter (Eds.) Art and Expression Therapy; Stuttgart, Kohlhammer (2013) pp. 35–51
• The portrait - a special fragment; in: Art & Therapy. Journal of Artistic Therapies. 2011/2, pp. 37-44
• In tormentis pinxit. Art therapy with pain patients; in: Martius, von Spreti et al., Art Therapy for Psychosomatic Disorders, Elsevier Verlag (2008), pp. 284-290
• The Effectiveness of Values ​​- Ethics in Art Therapy; in: diess: Internationale Perspektiven der Kunsttherapie (Ed.), Graz, Nausner & Nausner, 2003, pp. 27–53
• Horror in Art - Horror Vacui? Anxiety in the arts of children and adolescents and their treatment in art therapy; in: R. Hampe, D. Ritschel, G. Waser: Art, design and therapy with children and adolescents, Bremen, University of Bremen (1999), pp. 206–222
• Transfer and countertransference in art therapy, Psychotherapy Forum, Springer Verlag, Vol. 5/1 (1997), pp. 74-76
• Therapy through art - art as therapy, Berliner Ärzteblatt 2 (1990) p. 8

Forewords

• Edith Kramer, Art as Therapy with Children, Munich, Reinhardt Verlag 2014 (6th edition)
• Donald W. Winnicott, Therapeutic work with children, Karlsruhe, Gerardi Verlag, Karlsruhe (2007)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Dannecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karin Dannecker at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin
• College in the art college
• Karin Dannecker (Ed.) Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry. Routledge, New York, Ozone 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-67197-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Dannecker, Uwe Herrmann: Why Art? about the need to create art . 1st edition. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95466-055-1 .
2. ↑ Art Outsider Art: Symposium in October 2011 . Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814373-3-1 .
3. ↑ Karin Dannecker: Psyche and Aesthetics: The Transformations of Art Therapy . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95466-133-6 .
4. ↑ International perspectives in art therapy (=  life arts ). 1st edition Nausner and Nausner, Graz Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-901402-32-6 .
5. ↑ Karin Dannecker: Art, Symbol and Soul: Theses on Art Therapy . 4th, unchanged. Edition PL Acad. Research, Frankfurt, M 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66135-2 .
6. ↑ Art Therapy: Artistic Action - Effect - Craft . 1st edition Schattauer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7945-3098-4 .